According to Steven M. Bellovin:
>
>I (mostly) agree with 640 for most partitions; my comment was about 
>that mode for the swap area, which isn't backed up.
>

I did think of that after I sent the message and was going to do a
follow up but got dragged off.  The trick is that /dev/wd0b may not
necessarily be swap :-)  If you boot from a scsi disk then, unless you
changed your kernel conf, your swap will be /dev/sd0b - /dev/wd0b may
very well be your /usr/local/stuff partition.  Having b as swap is
convention only not a hard rule.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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